Job Title: Senior Simulator Maintenance Engineer

Job Location: Crawley (West Sussex), UK

Hours: Full time shift work (shift pattern: 12-hour shifts – 4 nights on, 4 off)

Job ID: 17988

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Crawley specialise in technology and systems to enable quality pilot training from distance learning systems applications and maintenance solutions to training devices and full flight simulators, our technology covers the complete training spectrum.

A few of our employee benefits

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Subsidised staff restaurant

About the role

• Lead the team responsible for the maintenance and support of our Full Flight Simulators and lower-level training devices.
• Act as a point of contact to the customer for both technical and logistics issues.
• Manage the team workload and future planning.
• Undertake all duties as a member of the maintenance team providing a turnkey service.
• Perform any tasks related to maintaining the Authority qualifications as a Device coordinator.

Responsibilities will include

• This role requires a considerable amount of Customer contact as well as interfacing to the relevant Training Services teams.
• Be main point of contact for customers with technical or logistical issues.
• Lead the Maintenance team with workload planning and prioritization. Ensuring all tasks are completed on time across the devices.
• Provide ‘advice and assistance’ to other depts. and management with regards to maintenance and required support to ensure maximum available training time is achieved.
• Troubleshooting and resolution of faults in tight time scales.
• Perform / support scheduled simulator maintenance routines.
• Investigation and repair of ongoing simulator issues.
• Simulator set up and pre-flight checks.
• Assistance with annual re-certification activities and follow up reporting.
• Perform functions relative to maintaining Aircraft and Simulator software.
• Maintenance of the Simulator Software Configuration Management System,
• Interface with in-house design and test departments to investigate outstanding defects and future product improvements.
• Implementing and testing of software changes and building of new software loads.
• Spares management. Ordering replacement spares and tracking repairs.
• Actively monitor and record Usage, Reliability and Maintainability of the training devices and assist with monthly reporting of the FSTD’s via Electronic Maintenance and reporting software.
• Coaching of less experienced staff members
• Provide safety briefings to new instructors.
• Fly simulators for testing / approved visits and demonstrations.

What you’ll bring

The role of Senior Simulator Maintenance Technicianrequires the following experience and skills:

• Educated to a minimum BTEC/HTQ, HND/HNC level or equivalent relevant qualification /experience.
• Proven electrical, electronic and mechanical theoretical knowledge supplemented with practical experience.
• Develop or possess knowledge aircraft systems and ability to interpret aircraft, engineering, and electronic diagrams.
• Able to navigate aircraft manuals and documentation.
• Previous FSTD experience.
• Flexibility and ability to think out of the box.
• Act on own initiative.
• IT Literate with MS Office.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Please note: Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK

As an equal opportunities’ employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.